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PIA08480: Opportunity's Outcrop Outing
This composite shows the view from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity in the direction of 'Victoria Crater,' on May 12, 2006. To reach Victoria Crater he rover had to navigate among the large ripples visible on the left and ahead in the distance.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars Exploration Rover (MER) 
 Spacecraft:  Opportunity
 Instrument:  Navigation Camera 
 Product Size:  2701 x 1046 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  Cornell University 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA08480.tif (2.828 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA08480.jpg (354.3 kB)  

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This composite of three images from the navigation camera shows the view from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity toward the southeast, in the direction of "Victoria Crater," on the rover's 817th Martian day, or sol (May 12, 2006). To reach Victoria Crater, still about 1,100 meters (two-thirds of a mile) from this location, the rover must navigate among the large ripples visible on the left and ahead in the distance.

On this sol, Opportunity was preparing to deploy its arm instrument suite to analyze a rock on the outcrop pavement. At upper right is a small depression that was the target of further imaging on sols 825 and 826 (May 20 and 21, 2006).

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell

Image Addition Date:
2006-05-24